Fossil shells known as Gryphaea are amongst the most familiar of Warwickshire fossils. They are commonly known as ‘Devils’ toenails’, due to their broadly curved shape, which looks a bit like ...
300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, what is now Warwickshire lay just north of the Equator. The climate was hot and rather arid, as evidenced by the reddened, ...
This remarkable fossil is the skull of a Warwickshire ‘sea-dragon’ – a Jurassic ichthyosaur from Binton, near Stratford-upon-Avon. This amazing fossil was collected in the 19th century when the local ...
The Burton Dassett Hills Country Park, in southern Warwickshire, consists of a range of picturesque rolling hills that command views over much of southern Warwickshire, above the M40 motorway north-west ...
The Edge Hill ridge in southern Warwickshire is capped by a thin layer of sedimentary ironstone, known locally as the Hornton Stone. This was quarried on the ridge until quite ...
A few years ago, new steps and a disabled-access ramp were installed at Shire Hall, Warwick. The chosen medium for construction was a local building stone known as Hornton Stone, ...
These star-shaped objects, resembling snow flakes, are actually a type of fossil, commonly found in southern and eastern Warwickshire. These particular examples are from Napton-on-the-Hill, where the local Jurassic clay, ...
When in work, until about ten years ago, Southam Quarry was a fantastic resource for geological investigations. The ‘Blue Lias’ clay and limestone layers were a rich source of fossils, ...
Edge Hill, in southern Warwickshire, is well known as the site of the first major battle of the English Civil War. On Sunday 23rd October 1642, the Parliamentarian and Royalist armies ...
During the 19th century, the Jurassic limestone layers of southern and eastern Warwickshire were quarried for flooring, gravestones and walling, and for making lime and cement. Workmen often uncovered amazing fossils ...
Guy’s Cliffe House just outside Warwick lies on a good exposure of middle Triassic sandstone. The rock is a geological site of special scientific interest and on the geological conservation ...
Rhynchosaurs were reptiles that were widespread in the Triassic Period, their fossil remains have been found in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Madagascar, and India. The Warwickshire Museum has ...
This remarkable fossil was collected during the nineteenth century from a former stone quarry at Wilmcote, near Stratford upon Avon. Many interesting and unusual fossils used to be found in ...
The Jurassic rocks of southern and eastern Warwickshire have yielded many fossils over the last two hundred years, including the skeletons of ichthyosaurs – dolphin-like ‘fish-lizards’ made famous by Mary ...
Parts of central and eastern Warwickshire are well-known amongst geologists and the quarry industry for patches of ancient sand and gravel, the half million year-old deposits of a long-lost river, ...
The background
In April 2017 Heritage & Culture Warwickshire worked with The Play House and pupils from Westgate Primary to create tales inspired by objects on display at the Market Hall Museum. Four classes from Westgate Primary ...
The background
In April 2017 Heritage & Culture Warwickshire worked with The Play House and pupils from Westgate Primary to create tales inspired by objects on display at the Market Hall Museum. Four classes from Westgate Primary ...
This beautiful specimen from Warwickshire Museum’s collection is part of a natural limestone nodule, collected about twenty years ago from the now-flooded ‘old quarry’ near Southam, formerly owned by Rugby ...
John Roberts has already told us about the intriguing occurrences of maritime/salt-loving plants in parts of our landlocked county. Interestingly, this same landscape preserves geological evidence (rocks and fossils) for ...
Warwickshire has been a sea-bed in its time, with aeons-old, marine fossils found in geological exposures from north of Nuneaton to Burton Dassett. Today the county hosts a variety of ...
True dinosaurs – land-dwelling ruling reptiles of the Mesozoic Era – are quite widespread in Great Britain, and more are being discovered all the time. In Warwickshire, our widespread Jurassic ...
The hills at the southern tip of Warwickshire, above Long Compton, are capped by beds of limestone of Middle Jurassic age, roughly 170 million years old. These formed as layers ...